Today's News

Shallotte Police charged the following people and investigated the following incidents during the past week.

•Police charged Christopher Allen Bennett, 19, of 358 Ivy Wood Lane, Surfside Beach, S.C., with driving while impaired and attempting to elude arrest. He was taken to the Brunswick County Detention Center on a $500 secured bond.

•Obtaining property by false pretenses; suspect took victim’s DVD player, returned it to Walmart and received cash for it.

Agents with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Unit made the following arrests last week. The suspects and their charges, which are taken directly from arrest reports and citations, are:

The Aggressive Criminal Enforcement (ACE) Team is a support unit, whose primary functions are traffic enforcement and assisting in the apprehension of drug traffickers in the county. The ACE team conducts driving while impaired and driver’s license checkpoints, as well as street-level investigations on controlled substances.

The ACE team works with the sheriff’s office K-9 Enforcement Team and Drug Enforcement Unit to apprehend narcotics suspects as well as saturating hot spots where criminal activity is reported.

SUNSET HARBOR—From a cozy fireplace to an outdoor kitchen to an upstairs “sleeping porch” complete with hanging bed, the Coastal Living Idea House in the Seawatch community has ideas for every taste.

That’s the purpose of the magazine’s annual Idea House, which opens for tours to provide customers with ideas for their own homes. Each year, the idea house uses materials from national sponsors as well as local and regional providers to create a one-of-a-kind dream home for touring and to feature in the magazine.

Brunswick County Sheriff’s detectives are searching for two missing teenagers.

Katrina Nicole McGriff, 16, and Kayla Victoria Jenkins, 16, were last seen around 2:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 17, on Cory Lane in Leland. They left a Cory Lane residence in a 2004 gray Pontiac Grand Am four-door vehicle with a front tag that reads, “Kayla’s Ride.”

They are possibly in the Myrtle Beach, S.C., area, where Jenkins’ mother last talked to her daughter on her cell phone.

As she strode toward the hangar, Betty Grace Grabb was already smiling.

Going skydiving was a life-long dream--and she was going to do it surrounded by her family and friends.

The flight plan

At 81 years old, Grabb is active. She and her husband travel, enjoy spending time with their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She says they have done a lot in their lives including going ice skating, roller skating, water skiing, cross country skiing, motor biking and traveling.